UK companies linked to Iraqi reconstruction fraud inquiry

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Two British companies have been linked to a multi million-pound fraud concerning a “ghost” delivery of equipment to Iraq, as part of a US investigation into how billions of dollars in reconstruction funds went missing.

The companies are named in court papers, seen by The Times, involving an American businessman who pleaded guilty in April to being part of the scam. Together, it is alleged, they received $8.5 million for dozens of armoured vehicles that were meant for the Iraqi Interior Ministry but which were never delivered.

A former British Army officer and a retired senior officer in the Metropolitan